Notepad++ - This is the definitive notepad-related software you’ll ever need. Multiple tabs, keeps tracks of lines, lots of features and preferences. One of the most invaluable parts of it, is that you can close it or a update happens or maybe your PC will get knocked offline. You can come back to Notepad++, open it, and everything will be retained.
Yep. Even as a Linux user from the word go, I appreciate Notepad++ as a formidable piece of software. There are text editors under Linux coming close, but I wish we had a native version of NP++ here.
Kate is a KDE app that comes close, it’s what I use. NotepadQQ seems to be what you’re looking for, but it’s not actively maintained.
I mostly use Kate for editing, but there are some things where NP++ is still better, like copying/pasting rectangular blocks.
I’ve seen NotepadQQ once, but the inactive maintainence was a no go for me.